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This is the only international conspiracy
of which I am a dues paying member. The Spelling Society has been in business, under various
names (including the Simplified Spelling Society) since 1908. Based in Britain, it has an international membership of
teachers, linguists and other people who are tired of spending half their
working lives looking for spelling errors. There is an e-mail discussion group
for members, as well as a serious scholarly journal and a newsletter.
The American Literacy Council is the
American analogue and predecessor of the Simplified Spelling Society. It
supports both spelling reform and better teaching of traditional orthography.
The Council offers a particularly useful spell-checker program. This program
also converts traditional orthography into a reformed system, for learners who
want to see how words should be pronounced. English Spelling Reform This
site by David Barnsdale has persuasive arguments for the reform English spelling
and a history of the attempts to do so over the last 150 years. It also has has
material supporting the thesis that the high levels of dyslexia in
English-speaking countries are partly a product of the chaotic spelling system.
Orthography Index One of
Steve Bett's sites. There are links here to everything having to do with
spelling, plus some superior graphics.
Online Spelling Reform Forum Steve
Bett's other site.
Henry Sweet's Principles of
Spelling Reform These are the thoughts of a 19th century reform advocate.
Back then, if you believe this fellow, everybody thought English spelling would
be reformed soon.
BTRSPL A free, downloadable
computer program that transforms traditional orthography into a reformed system.
Perl
Script This is the program used to generate three of the examples given on
the Schemes page. You can insert whole books of text into it online and get a
reformed version in any of three proposed systems.
Institut für deutsche Sprache German,
like most European languages, undergoes systematic spelling reforms from time to
time. Here is a society involved in the latest, rather controversial reform.
Swiss German Bund fuer vereinfachte
rechtschreibung Federation for Simplified Spelling
The Homepage of Ze do Rock
Spelling reform, not just for English, but also for German and Brazilian
Portuguese. There is a new joke in reformed English every day.
Faster Spelling This is among many
interesting notions from the Australian education reformer, Valerie Yule.
The Real Reason Spelling
Reform is Impossible Justin B. Rye reveals the awful truth.
Madhukar N. Gogate & Globish A reformed
orthography, from an Indian perspective, plus lots of other information about
Indic lnaguages, particularly Marathi.
Romanization of Bulgarian
& Re-Romanization of English English in 22 letters.
Problems in learning to read and write English A teacher's
view of just how awful English spelling is.